Concentrated organic medicines : being a practical exposition of the therapeutic properties and clinical employment of the combined proximate medicinal constituents of indigenous and foreign plants ... / by Grover Coe.

  • Coe, Grover, 1825-1860.
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1860
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Credit: Concentrated organic medicines : being a practical exposition of the therapeutic properties and clinical employment of the combined proximate medicinal constituents of indigenous and foreign plants ... / by Grover Coe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ATROPIN. ■» »■ Derived from Atropa Belladonna, Nat. Ord.—Solanacem. Sex. Syst.—Pentandria Monogynia. Common Names.—Belladonna, Deadly Nightshade, <&c. Parts Used.—Leaves and Boot. No. of Principles.—Three : resin, neutral, and alkaloid. Properties.—Narcotic, anodyne, antispasmodic, calmative, alterative, resolvent, diaphoretic, and diuretic. Employment.—Convulsions, epilepsy, neuralgia, schirrus, dropsy, obstinate intermittens, scarlet fever, whooping cough, asthma, suppression of the menses, syphilitic infections, paral- ysis, amaurosis, nervous affections, mania, melancholy, dec. The dynamical effects of Atropin, when given in small doses, are dryness in the fauces, thirst, difficult deglutition^ deluded vision, increased sensibility and irritability of the optic nerve, dilated pupil, vertigo, mental exhiliration, and increased perspiration. When the doses are increased, the thirst becomes excessive, swallowing is difficult if not impossi- ble, the throat becomes swelled and painful, with spasm of the glottis, a sense of numbness is felt about the eyes, follow- ed by delirium, mania, hiccough, dyspnea, grinding of the teeth, convulsions, tetanus, lethargic slumber, and apoplectic death. A post-mortem examination reveals severe and ex- tensive congestions of the brain, lungs, liver, spleen, stomach,
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